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Greater New York Watch

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An aging man with alleged mob ties went on trial Monday on charges he was in on the $6 million Lufthansa holdup in 1978, a legendary theft dramatized in the film “Goodfellas.”

The brazen armed robbery of cash and jewelry at a cargo terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport was “the score of all scores” for Vincent Asaro, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsay Gerdes said in opening statements in federal court in Brooklyn.